A YOUNG man shouted so loudly during a disturbance at a kebab shop, he disturbed officers in a police station just across the road.

Hearing the commotion, police went to see what was happening and ended up arresting 20-year-old Derek John Roberts.

At Mold Crown Court yesterday, it was alleged Roberts - who has 30 previous convictions - had threatened to kill a Turkish member of staff at the Rhos kebab shop a couple of days earlier.

The alleged incident happened just days after the Wrexham riots.

It was claimed he said they had already killed one in Caia Park and would kill him as well.

Roberts, of Maes y Gornel, Rhos, was cleared of two racially aggravated public order offences by a jury.

But he was convicted of harassment for the second incident in which police intervened.

Roberts - who already has a conviction for a raciallyaggravated public order offence - was jailed for six months.

In addition to the conviction for harassment, he admitted resisting police and damaging their police car.

Judge Merfyn Hughes QC told Roberts, an alcoholic, that he was a menace who had one of the worst records he had seen for a man so young.

"Exactly a week after magistrates gave you a conditional discharge for criminal damage, you were in the streets on Rhos in a drunken condition - abusing, causing harassment to other people, resisting arrest and causing damage," the judge told him.

"You are only 20 but you have some 30 previous convictions." In the first incident, witness Hayattin Urus said he was in the shop when Roberts entered, banged the counter and said words to be effect that "we killed someone in Queen's Park and we will kill you as well".

Mr Urus is a Turkish refugee but it was claimed Roberts had been shouting "Iraqi bastards".

In the second incident, it was alleged Roberts had hurled abuse at Mr Urus outside the shop and police who were in the police station across the road heard him and went out to tell him to calm down. Defending barrister Andrew Green asked him if it was sadly not part of the job that he had to deal with people who were abusive.

Mr Urus said: "He was threatening. It was the way he said he would kill us - the way his eyes were looking at me."

Roberts said he was not a racist and had not made any racist remarks. On the second occasion he had been abusive - but not racially abusive, he claimed.